Tag: mardi gras

Featured photo: The 2013 Krewe of Highland Parade photographed by Jim Noetzel. If you’re a regular 20×49.com reader, you may know that this blog is a project of the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau (SBCTB)….

At the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau, we’re always looking for creative ways to tell the world about Carnival season in Shreveport-Bossier. In 2014, we partnered with photographer Jim Noetzel to create a time-lapse of…

Lilah’s Bakery, a mom-and-pop bakery and sandwich shop that has previously done business at locations in Shreveport’s Highland neighborhood as well as at the Louisiana Boardwalk Outlets, has re-opened at a new Highland address. The…

Historically, Fat Tuesday celebrations in Shreveport-Bossier have been much calmer and family-oriented than Fat Tuesday festivities held elsewhere in Louisiana. This year, the Krewe of Aesclepius Children’s Parade (Facebook event link here), which is the…

Each Mardi Gras season in Shreveport-Bossier, there are always some smaller, off-the-beaten-path festivities that pop up in the days before or after major parade weekends. In the language of Louisiana, these events would probably be…

(Pictured above: A fried shrimp po-boy, served on Leidenheimer Baking Co. bread, from Kim’s Seafood and Po-Boy in Bossier City.) If you were asked to recommend just one item of Carnival season food or drink,…

The Krewe of Harambee Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Mardi Gras Parade, which rolls through downtown Shreveport each year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (this year’s event will begin at 1 p.m. on Monday,…

For thousands of years people have been celebrating the coming of spring and the new life that’s brought forth during that season. Mardi Gras, also known as Carnival or Fat Tuesday, is celebrated in areas…

The Blanc et Noir Marching Society, a traditional, New Orleans-style second line group who march at the head of the annual Krewe of Highland Mardi Gras Parade (scheduled to roll through Shreveport’s historic Highland neighborhood…

The Krewe of Barkus and Meoux Pet Parade returns to downtown Shreveport’s RiverView Park on Sunday, Feb. 3. For the fifteenth year running, the krewe known as “the animal krewe” will stage a parade of…

As someone who is responsible for marketing the collective experience of Mardi Gras season in Shreveport-Bossier, I’m pretty sure that I’m not supposed to use words like “favorite.” But, honestly, the Krewe of Harambee’s annual…

One of the things I always enjoyed about living in New Orleans during my college years, was all of the great live music. It was everywhere… at parties, funerals, or even random neighborhood block parties….